Watercolor Wizard: New Daniel Smith Grounds and Watercolors

CHA starts tomorrow….and since I’ll be at the Daniel Smith booth, I figured I’d show you some of the samples I took with me!

Watercolor Wizard: New Daniel Smith Grounds and Watercolors

Daniel Smith makes grounds – basically gessos that turn almost any surface into a watercolor surface! In the video below I show you how I added texture to mine since I like cold press and especially rough cold press papers…you can give it less texture too, customizing it any way you want. Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.

Doesn’t it look beautiful on the gold too?

The inside of the card carries the sentiment on these cards…

I covered a chipboard box – it had a pattern on it so I covered it in inexpensive gesso first, til I had a basic white surface to add the pearlized ground to. Then painted poppies!

I wanted to see how this worked on tin – it was great!

And this candle came out beautifully. Be careful with this, because the grounds could possibly exude a smell you might not like…I’ll try burning it sometime and see what happens. Didn’t want to try that before the show 🙂And I also had some of the black ground, so used that on a teensy tiny clay pot, using some of the iridescent colors.

Since these are new, they aren’t in-store yet…but they’re coming soon!

Supplies

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Iridescent colors on black are gorgeous! A CANDLE? My head is spinning with ideas but did you check to see if there was poison in the colors of paint or ground so fumes were not a problem? You are so adventurous! What a nice surprise on this very dismal day.

These grounds are so cool, love the idea of re painting outdoor decor items that have faded. Do you think you could use copics on the grounds? There was a local class called copics on canvas that I couldn’t go to due to work, and I still haven’t found out the secret to using copics on canvas. Any ideas?